Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Extensive post registration experience working at band 5 or 6 in mental health.
- Experience
Experience working with individuals with complex psychosis or enduring mental health conditions
- Experience
Experience of delivering recovery-focused, person-centred care
- Experience
Experience managing a caseload, including assessment, care planning, and risk management
- Experience
Experience working within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience
Experience maintaining accurate and timely clinical records
- Experience
Experience engaging service users who may be reluctant or hard to reach
- Experience
Ability to work independently and manage competing demands in a pressured environment
- Qualifications
A professional mental health qualification eg RMN, Social Work Degree or equivalent, BSc/Diploma in OT, SROT, Chartered Clinical Psychologist, on the appropriate professional body register and hold current registration with no restrictions Evidence of relevant continuing professional development
Desirable
10 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Experience working within inpatient mental health or rehabilitation settings
- Experience
Experience of recovery coordination or care programme approach (CPA) processes
- Experience
Experience delivering evidence-based psychosocial interventions
- Experience
Experience or knowledge of working with co-occurring substance misuse
- Experience
Experience contributing to service development, quality improvement, or evaluation
- Experience
Experience providing supervision, mentorship, or informal leadership within a team
- Experience
Experience facilitating therapeutic groups or structured activities
- Qualifications
Post graduate qualification relevant to specialism
- Qualifications
Clinical Supervision qualification
- Qualifications
Training to level 3 in Safeguarding children and young people: roles and competencies for Health Care staff Evidence of leadership/management training within a core service
Job summary
We are seeking a motivated, flexible, and skilled practitioner to join a dynamic and supportive team providing community rehabilitation to adults experiencing complex psychosis. The service promotes a positive team culture where learning, reflection, and professional development are actively encouraged, alongside access to a range of training opportunities.
This role is suitable for an experienced Nurse, Occupational Therapist, or Social Worker with experience working with individuals with enduring mental health conditions.
The post holder will deliver high-quality, comprehensive mental health services with the primary aim of improving the psychological health and wellbeing of individuals with complex psychosis within a designated Devon locality.
Working within a Recovery and Rehabilitation Service, the role focuses on delivering recovery-oriented, evidence-based interventions and providing support to service users and their families.
Main duties of the job
- Work across the Torbay and South West Devon locality
- Manage a defined caseload, delivering specialist assessment, treatment, and recovery-focused care for individuals with complex psychosis and their carers
- Lead on designing, implementing, and reviewing personalised care
- Deliver evidence-based interventions and utilise specialist knowledge, including substance misuse, to support service users and the wider team
- Contribute to assessment, care planning, risk management, and review processes within the multidisciplinary team
- Work collaboratively with carers, partner agencies, and professionals across Torbay and South West Devon
- Coordinate and facilitate therapeutic activities and structured rehabilitation pathways
- Promote engagement, independence, and social inclusion through a strengths-based, person-centred approach
- Maintain accurate and timely clinical records in line with Trust standards
- Provide clinical support and supervision to team members and contribute to service development and evaluation
- Hold a reduced caseload to enable delivery of intensive rehabilitation interventions
- Demonstrate effective organisation and time management in a dynamic working environment
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Details
- Date posted: 11 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: C9369-26-0698
- Job locations: Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Estuary House, Collett Way, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12 4PH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Rehab and Recovery Senior Mental Health Practitioner with Devon Partnership NHS Trust in Dawlish, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Mental health practitioner role. The advertised salary is £39959.00 to £48117.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 05 Oct 2026.
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